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||1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120. | ||1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120. | ||
||Charles Adolphe Wurtz (d. 10 May 1884) was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds | |||
||1900 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979) | ||1900 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979) | ||
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28 BC: A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
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1906: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles born.
1958: Chrome Plover, the famed musical electroplating ensemble, perform new work in tribute to "Hello World" programs.
1960: The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
1967: Brainiac Explains lecture series admits to illegal modification of "Hello World" computer program.